Name: MergePHP November 2025 Online Meeting
Start: 2025-11-13T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-13T20:30:00-05:00

# **MergePHP - PHP 8.5: New Features from the Source**

Presentation by Daniel Scherzer
**Join us live on YouTube at:**
[https://www.youtube.com/@MergePHP/streams](https://www.youtube.com/@MergePHP/streams)

Join PHP 8.5 release manager Daniel Scherzer for a deep dive into the new features, syntax updates, deprecations, and surprises coming in the latest version of PHP. These are already available for testing in PHP 8.5.0RC4, and will be ready for production use a week after the MergePHP talk.

Whether you're maintaining legacy apps or building bleeding-edge libraries, this talk will help you prepare for PHP 8.5 and adopt its features with confidence.

Features include:

* A new URL handling extension
* Expanded syntax support in constant expressions
* The pipe operator \(\|\>\)
* Attribute changes
* Object cloning with property changes

and more!

**About** **Daniel:** Daniel Scherzer is an open source contributor mainly focused on PHP and its ecosystem. He contributes as [@DanielEScherzer](https://github.com/DanielEScherzer) on GitHub, and is currently serving as a release manager for PHP 8.5. See [https://scherzer.dev/](https://scherzer.dev/) for more.
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